Areas of Research

Nineteenth century British literature; colonial epistemologies; literature and religion; translation; terrorism

Talks and Presentations

“Tipu’s Tiger’s Sonic Strata” (March 2022) ERCC Worldliness Seminar, University of Melbourne (Zoom)

“The Infernal Machine: A (sonic) History of Terrorism in Three Parts” (May 2022) “Juxtapositions” Lecture Series, SUNY Buffalo (Zoom)

Recent Publications

Review of James Mulholland’s Before the Raj: Writing Early Anglophone India in Eighteenth Century Fiction (35:1) January 2023

“Aside from Insurrection” Romantic Circles Unbound, 21.1

“ ‘With a Knife at One’s Throat’: Irish Terrorism in The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys” Nineteenth-Century Literature (75:3) [2021 Keats-Shelly Association of America Essay Prize]

“Global Romantics and the cultural etymology of terrorism” Keats-Shelley Journal (68)

“Debating Insurrection in Ringan Gilhaize,” Studies in Scottish Literature (46.2)